Cables Pirelli

Philippe Egon

Philippe Lesueur

Christian Liegeois

Bruno Leguen

A splice for crimping optical fibers includes two half-cylinders, a support block and a pressing block, which are mutually pressed by a crimping cylinder. The support block is provided with a longitudinal groove for receiving the stripped fiber and bears capped edges. The capped edges and stops are symmetrically mounted on either side of the longitudinal axis of the half-cylinders and are designed for maintaining axis of the half-cylinders and are designed for maintaining a small space between the two half-cylinders in the zone where they are located.

Mechanical splice for crimping optical fibre

The tool is constituted, on one hand, by a lower plate (12) traversed by a calibrated orifice, between an admission chamber (14) equipped with a roller (18) and a cutting plate (15) and, on the other hand, by an upper cover (22) also pierced by an opening (24) emerging in an inlet chamber (26) equipped with a roller (28). The upper cover is placed above the lower plate at distance that is variable so that the calibrated orifice and the opening are aligned, or can be offset heightwise.

Process for mechanically removing the encapsulating material from a

The device comprises a central spicing body serving to connect in situ two cable end plugs which fit into the splicing body. The central body has lower rails hollowed out therein and bears lateral shoulders for guiding and locking the end plugs constituted by a lower part and by an upper part fixed to one another by a press fit. The device has application in the in situ splicing of optical fibers.

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Pleumeur Bodou, France

Philippe Egon